482 Quotes by Ann Brashares

It’s always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it’s the root of joy.

I look back on my 20s. It’s supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you’re making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

For the first time she saw that the nurse’s name was Tabitha.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things.

Tibby’s wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn’t sure who’d broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time.

She was never going to be the kind of person who didn’t stick out in all directions. To want it was the same as hating herself. That was the truth. She breathed those words. She could have repeated them a hundred times and they wouldn’t have hurt any worse. Reality was stubborn for sure, but it was large and it had possibilities. It was a sweet relief when you let it come.